'How can he be out on day release less than a year into sentence?'

HEARTBROKEN FAMILY OUTRAGED AFTER SON'S KILLER MOVED TO AN OPEN PRISON

- By SOPHIE DOUGHTY

FOREVER tortured by their son's senseless death, Joe Scott and Hayley Bryan are today faced with the agony that the driver who stole his life has been allowed back on the streets.

Joe Scott junior was just 19 years old when a BMW driven by drugged up driver Steven Wallace ploughed into him as he waited for a bus with his girlfriend.

Joe was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision, which happened in the West Denton area of Newcastle almost two years ago. And his girlfriend Abi-Leigh Ross, also 19, was left seriously injured.

Wallace was eventually jailed for seven years and eight months after a court heard he was more than five times the drug-driving limit as he sped along the residential street, while showing off in his newly-purchased BMW 320i.

But now, just 11 months after Wallace was sentenced, Joe's heartbroken family have been told that the killer has already been moved to an open prison and has been allowed out on day release.

The move has come as a devastating blow to Joe's parents who have been left feeling as if there has been no justice for their son.

And now, as they come to terms with the fact that his killer is able to walk the streets again so soon, Joe and Hayley have laid bare the impact Wallace's actions have had on their family.

Joe senior, 42, said: "It’s ruined all of our lives. It's devastated us, it’s horrendous. We are just angry and upset all the time.

"Everything is horrible and it just gets worse and worse and it’s all his fault. We got the life sentence, not him."